David Ott

Background

Since 2025

PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Systems, University of Tübingen

2020-2024

M. Sc. Machine Learning, University of Tübingen

2017-2020

B. Sc. Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen

Current Project

Open end learning on robot arms

Research Interests

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Language Understanding
Robotics

Supervised Thesis

2025	Bachelor thesis	Building a ROS2-VLA Bridge
2025	Bachelor thesis	Entwicklung eines Steuersystems für Roboterarme mittels freier Handbewegungen

Teaching

Lecture: Deep Learning (WS25/26)
Lecture: Introduction to Neural Networks (SS25)

Publications

[0] Benjamin Kiefer*, David Ott*, and Andreas Zell. Leveraging synthetic data in object detection on unmanned aerial vehicles. In 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pages 3564--3571, 2022. (*equal contribution) [ieee, arxiv]